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[SteveAvfc.]

Ran Bleachbit and its done the business thanks guys. 

[SteveAvfc.]

It's a desktop, just rebuild it, and stop messing about!

First post, first sentence says it`s SWMBO`s laptop 

 

[Shackeng]

Ran Bleachbit and its done the business thanks guys. 

Excellent. As I said, Windows is memory hungry and loves to store rubbish for you.

[Broomies Mate]

Hmmm.

If a computer can sometimes load in 5 mins, sometimes take an hour, I'd definitely be suspecting a bad sector or two on the HDD.

I don't know if BleachBit does a proper scan of the HDD and mark the bad sectors (so they won't be written to again)?  If so, that's what's solved your problem... or, it's moved a load of files around (like a DeFrag) and thus the Bootable files are not where the Bad Sectors are.

Physical damage is extremely common on Laptops.  It spreads like cancer, so get it checked out with a proper HDD utility.

[Diamond Black Geezer]

Yup. Think of your comp like a car thats running rough. the engine bays a state, frayed suspect wiring loom, not serviced in years, misfiring, and clearly been neglected. just because you have changed the HT leads and its running nice now, doesnt mean its not worth changing the oil... if you follow.

worth giving it a good going over with all tools mentioned, scan disk for errors, too. The latter is scheduled the next time you turn the comp on, so if I were you, when you're heading out/to sleep, schedule it, then restart and walk away and forget. On your return its scanned, so its not time consuming at all to do. 

[raywilb]

Iv,e had a problem for a few weeks now. being a webroot customer I contacted them, & for a hour or so they took charge of my laptop
from their end. the conclusion was, Nothing was wrong with my computer & it was a admin problem. when I contacted Virgin Media at first they tried to say they had no issues. however I stuck to my guns & said I think they have.& after putting me on hold a couple of times VM admitted they had found a problem that was making everything run very slow. a ticket had (they said) had already been issued & engineers were working to fix it. all this conversation took place last Friday. Yesterday I switched on & guess what . all now is okay.  now when I press search, its almost instant. whereas for the last few weeks I would get a disc symbol going round & round & "waiting for V.M " message for what seemed like forever.

[TheBoy]

It's a desktop, just rebuild it, and stop messing about!

First post, first sentence says it`s SWMBO`s laptop 

A laptop is a desktop class system. No need to differentiate. Thus, rebuild.